Jim! cheers for the reply - No friends i know have a gaming rigs like mine (or similar) so i cant test out the graphics card on theirs. Thanks for the information though mate its really useful.
Yea that's my motherboard it should perform really well i don't get what is wrong with it really...To be honest I always bit disappointed with my build from day one as you probably know - I just think the board was faulty maybe from day one and i did not realise?
Anyway I will take what you said into consideration and try out AMD I will look into a better AMD board then the one I have shown you then give you the info.
Cheers bud!